Posted on 06/03/2002 6:33:14 PM PDT by Texasforever
There has been a very loud and nasty argument gong on around here for months about how the GOP and George W. Bush have deserted Conservatives to pander to moderates and liberals and that they would stay home to show their discontent.. I say argument and not debate because there has been no debate just charge and counter-charge. I have issued the challenge to several disaffected former GOP and Bush supporters to start a thread that would focus on viable alternatives to both the GOP in 2002 and a replacement for Bush in 2004. None have taken up that challenge so I will start the thread myself.
This thread is not to continue the argument pro and con for either the GOP OR G.W. Bush.. Assume that conservatives have decided that Republicans are a lost cause and that the task is to put into place a viable alternative and candidate that will not result in conceding the elections to the democrats because that is neither smart OR rational. With that in mind I hope some of you that have given up and are very vocal in that stance will make your case for how conservatives should vote in the mid-term elections and who should be the conservative choice for POTUS, regardless of party, in 2004. If there is a candidate out there that you know about that could be groomed for national office in 2 years then please tell us why you think so and as much about the record on conservative issues as possible.
Once again, please refrain from just airing the same reasons for not supporting Bush, the GOP or both. That is already documented. The purpose for this thread are viable alternatives or solutions.
Buckley, William Frank, Jr. |
1925, American editor, author, and lecturer, b. New York City, grad. Yale, 1946. Buckley is a popular, eloquent, and witty spokesman for the conservative point of view. An editor for The American Mercury (195152), he founded (1955) the National Review, which soon became the leading journal of conservativism in the United States. In 1965 he was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of New York City. He has hosted the television show Firing Line since 1966, and writes a syndicated newspaper column. His nonfiction includes God and Man at Yale (1951) and The Unmaking of a Mayor (1966). His novelistic accounts of the adventures of an American spy during the cold war include Saving the Queen (1976) and A Very Private Plot (1994). He also wrote The Redhunter (1999), a largely favorable fictional presentation of Sen. Joseph McCarthys activities. | 1 |
See his autobiography of faith, Nearer, My God (1997); biography by J. Judis (1988). | 2 |
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I am now a one issue voter post 9-11.
You really won't care whose in the White House in 2004 if we are all incinerated by a nuclear device. Period.
I think President Bush has been very Reaganesque, at times. He presents himself as a true conservative and has promoted the conservative agenda, time and again. And as Reagan did, Bush43 is playing to the independents and the center-right of the political spectrum, while ignoring the political extremes, of the liberal left/far left and far right. That's how you win the Presidency.
Folks, welcome to the Ocean of Disenchantment. I've fell off the Titanic, and sunk to the hard rock bottom, a day or two out of port when Capn Bush made his apparently soul wrenching decision to federally fund macabe assays into the flesh of already* murdered babies. "Global Warming"? If it's true, perhaps it's God's mercy, for perhaps He is just acclimatizing mankind for eternal warming in Hell.
*already always makes it OK you see, life is just a liberal fait accompli...
Bush is still earning trust, and more likely solidifying it. Would I advise him to take more direct conservative stances on several issues? You bet, but I'm not going to forget all the other things he has done for conservatism, nor the position he is in, nor the environment in which he is operating in, nor the hand he has been dealt, nor the cost of the alternative, nor the heavy damage of the previous 8 years that still lingers and flares up. I'm not going to abandon ship just because everything isn't going exactly as I would like.
Elect Hillary & prince consort Billy, let them rule, and come the revolution we can start over again with a clean slate.
- Anarchyforever.
Duly noted.
That's how you win the Presidency, as you lose a free republic.
Absolutely right! -- Anarchyforever!
He is perhaps starting with an patience deficit left to him from his father and the Rep Party during the Clinton years, but he is losing hearts and minds.
I have confidence in ya, you can produce enough that it's squirting out of your eyes.=o)
Still and all, I WAS correct about Teddy R. !
That's right folks, tpaine's a true blue anarchist!
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